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- iancgi, on 04/09/2009, -0/+16The nano-revolution is upon us and it will either be the best thing to ever happen to man kind or the worst.
- Velvolver, on 04/09/2009, -1/+16This is ***** awesome.
The list for reasons to keep using oil is getting shorter every year. - xutopia, on 04/09/2009, -0/+8I'll believe it when it reaches the home depot next to my house.
- moose26, on 04/09/2009, -0/+8More efficient solar panels give more power for the same sized panel. Combine this with the advancements in tidal power and wind farm technology and we can take a huge chunk out of our dependency of foreign oil. Let hope this advancement makes it into mainstream usage and does not get muffled/quieted by the lobbyists and propagandists of fossil fuels and those who stand in the way of green technology only to make themselves richer versus helping out the global community.
- Dankoozy, on 04/09/2009, -2/+8Its better than the current generation of solar panels that use the rarest of rare earth metals & will never be viable without asteroid mining. lets just hope it won't be suppressed by the big evil oil companies
- NJank, on 04/09/2009, -1/+7That's ok.
1. It's the cheapest (all around costs considered) alternative available with the biggest infrastructure investment.
Is still a heck of a powerful list. - drmobutu, on 04/09/2009, -0/+6The silicon has to be refined, to an ultra-high level of purity, which requires wafer-fab assembly plants, similar to those used in making microchips. These are hugely expensive to build & operate, so only major players can afford to invest in them.
- thegrizz51, on 04/09/2009, -5/+10Don't worry, PETA will get involved and say it's cruel to kill Diatoms in the name of science!
- drmobutu, on 04/09/2009, -0/+5It's still taking too long, though...I want my affordable solar array, like, ten years ago!
- utnow, on 04/09/2009, -0/+5I'm fairly sure he's sarcastically refering to digg user's propensity to think all of the world's problems could be solved if we just put solar panels (read: any alt. energy source) everywhere.
- thegrizz51, on 04/09/2009, -0/+5More expensive, but three times the output. That seems like it would be cheaper overall.
- failtrain, on 04/09/2009, -0/+4So when can I buy some?
- grodani, on 04/09/2009, -0/+4I think you're not really considering all the costs. When you factor in military costs related to political instability in oil producing regions, and the near-term and longer-term costs of refugee crises in places where people are dependent on meltwater from disappearing glaciers, agricultural costs from changing temperature and precipitation patterns, and (eventually) relocating some big coastal cities, the total cost of burning fossil oil gets really, really high.
- mark5hs, on 04/09/2009, -0/+4Hopefully solar can finally start generating a useful amount of energy.
- trogdor282, on 04/09/2009, -0/+3Top-posting to correct an error in the summary. From TFA, these are new dye cells that are 3 times as good as the OLD dye cells. NOT 3x better than silicon. It's still great news though, cuz dye cells are dirt cheap.
- TooMuchPizza, on 04/09/2009, -1/+4Bio-solar seems awesome. "This technology may be slightly more expensive than some existing approaches..." was my only concern. Hopefully as research continues and the technology is brought into the market the price will drop, making this a more viable option.
- yerdaddy, on 04/09/2009, -0/+3My understanding is that polysilicon is really what's holding back solar panel production, which would not be so rare if more than about five major manufacturers around the world were the only places to get it. There's Plenty of input material.
- pinchduck, on 04/09/2009, -1/+4My gay what?
hint: Try "you're" - RealmDown, on 04/09/2009, -1/+4These are new to Digg. The lifeforms have mates.
- eternal464, on 04/09/2009, -3/+6great progress, but will it ever get implemented? so many stories, but such little adoption. at least in new england anyway.
of course we are the last to see change(unless your gay). - Hollowpoint, on 04/09/2009, -1/+4Argh does nobody on the internet have any understanding of sarcasm?
- jackdaniels06, on 04/09/2009, -0/+3Now THIS is the kind of stuff that is absolutely digg worthy! Thank you ljdmd for posting this.
- yerdaddy, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2I'd personally like to see a PV powered polysilicon plant in the US.
- daggart, on 04/09/2009, -2/+4The reason most technologies don't reach us faster is because of the monetary system we are under. The monetary system is all about profit, and if a problem is too expensive to fix it doesn't get funded and therefore we won't see said technology until it is cheaper to produce. Get rid of money barriers and technology could solve a lot of the worlds problems very quickly. For more information, view the documentary at this website:
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com - inactive, on 04/09/2009, -4/+6I'm getting tired of hearing about all the amazing technological breakthroughs with NO inconvenients at all, and 6 months from now I'm still gonna hear the argument that solar panels are not very efficient, and then I'll ask "what about that amazing technology they patented 6 months ago, that allowed to power a house with 5 people with a 4 feet panel?" only to get a confused look and a "I don't know...never heard of that".
What's up with science news these days? We hear of so many amazing cures and new technologies that in the end are never even used. People keep dying and we keep using oil and coal to power everything - inactive, on 04/09/2009, -1/+3"Diggers"? I'm not a "digger".
If it takes that long, it shouldn't take that long. It's probably because of bureaucracy and fear of technology by the big oil corporations that control all the *****. ***** the Republicans.
How's that? Insightful? - EnergyGeekCa, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2Lets hope this works because as a lot of already know the silicon and other materials used to manufacture solar panels are very toxic and can be harmful to your health (main for workers manufacturing them and then their disposal at the end of their lifecycle). I hope to look into this some more and learn more of the pros and cons.
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Eric B - pthurmond, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2Buried for that comment on the last line about gay people. Otherwise I would have dugg it.
- Charlotte_Web, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2You don't have to look any further than corn-based ethanol or the fuel additive MTBE to see that a well-meaning government is equally capable of making horrendous mistakes. At least with the free market, when something is shown to be a bad idea, people quickly vote with their wallets. When Congress introduces a bad idea, it has the mandate of law behind it, and it stays on the books for many years because congresspeople are reluctant to admit mistakes.
The petroleum economy has existed for a century. The coal-based economy has existed even longer. You can't unwind all of that in just a few years. - publiclurker, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2I'm afraid the excuse of "just making money" is responsible for almost as much pain and suffering in this world as religion is. for example, British Petroleum's involvement in the overthrow of the leader in Iran.
- Paulorific, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2That's what I'm talking about.
- fireburner23, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2Does Home Depot even offer the existing solar panels now?
- fireburner23, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2And they say we cannot find ways of getting our dependence off foreign oil or coal.
- grodani, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2Could be both. I'm interested to see.
- Rothbardosaurus, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2Let me know when it comes to market! There would be no greater boon to the economy than cheap, decentralized energy production!
- KaiUno, on 04/09/2009, -1/+3*wooosh*
- utnow, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2Sadly most of the hemming and hawing has more to do with "don't but FUEEEL man... yer killin the plaaaanet. we need to run our cars on cabbage to be green and *****"
Makes it hard to take your (very correct and 100% agreed upon) position seriously. - 4DFX, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2Except it's probably just ***** vaporware. Most "breakthroughs" on Digg are usually never heard of again.
- Antimatt, on 04/09/2009, -0/+2Prime example of Toffler's 3rd Wave.. Distributed power and biomechanics all in one.
- exostencil, on 04/09/2009, -1/+2I think being a single-celled organism pretty much ruins your eligibility for 'Sentient Being" benefits.
- tekproxy, on 04/09/2009, -1/+2Could be a hive-mind type intelligence, something akin to TNG, Episode 3x01 "Evolution", just off the top of my head.
- Countess666, on 04/09/2009, -0/+1since they are also killed by the increases in co2 levels in the ocean's I'm thinking those we kill will be saving multiple times their numbers in the end.
- whoreable, on 04/09/2009, -0/+1Toothpaste will skyrocket in price.
- Dankoozy, on 04/10/2009, -0/+1polysilicon seems to be better than using tellurium anyway. unless tellurium panels are easily recycled to make new solar panels there is almost no point in pouring more research effort into something that uses very rare metals
- billybillyboy, on 04/09/2009, -1/+2As soon as you can motivate people without a material reward for their efforts, we will enjoy a utopia. Of course, this will never happen, because it is not human nature.
- DubiousDrewski, on 04/09/2009, -0/+1I want to see a future iteration of the Tesla roadster covered in super-efficient, but good-looking solar paint. Imagine what will happen once solar tech becomes even more pliable and efficient and the energy density of batteries improves - we'll have cars that could drive forever and never need to fill up - ever.
- the2989, on 04/30/2009, -0/+1Sounds like a good death metal song.
- Countess666, on 04/09/2009, -0/+1slight more expensive then other dye-solar panels is still vastly cheaper then silicon based solar panels.
and they are 3 times better then the old dye-solar panels, making them a great leap forward in dollar/watt. - mesasone, on 04/11/2009, -0/+1Well in that case, I look forward to seeing an article about you on the front page any day now GordonFree. "Digg user and self-made millionaire GordonFree explains how they revolutionized industrial product design! What will he think of next?!"
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